D&D Players, What are your best "Evil DM" ideas, jokes, and pranks?

[@hedgehogsonic11]

We have a DM who, every time we make a bad joke or say something that they find incredibly stupid, says “[PC] gets hit by lightning”. It’s always a good laugh, but I know them well enough to know that sentence is one day gonna be followed with an actual damage roll.

[@Aquarios1337.]

My older brother uses d6s of psychic damage

[@goulash6737]

one player made so many 'your mom' jokes our dm had to deal 4d6 psychic damage every time he said it

[@candlegal10311]

our Dm has The Stick of NO anytime we get too........ "naughty" he bonks the player with The Stick of No. which is just a funny bonk noise he has on an app. cracks us up, and we all steer the RP back to safer terms. (we have a couple younger players who we forget about from time to time)

[@meemeleem]

friend of mine does something like this, except it was a buick falling out of the sky, typically crushing half the party

[@glitch2278]

Do you have to make a wisdom saving throw, or intelligence or dexterity? lol

[@Ivi-Tora]

Most evil idea I've had: Unaware PvP It works much better online, but can be used in live sessions if timed correctly. Basically you run two campaigns at the same time, in the same world, with the same story BUT with two small groups of players who are completely obvious of each other. Both groups will believe they are the protagonists and will act as normal, only their actions will begin to become a problem for the other group from the beginning. Want to clear a dungeon? Too bad. The other group already looted it before you arrived. Need to protect a citizen? The other group are murder hobos and he's killed during a robbery. Need the help of a friendly dragon? It's not so friendly anymore after somebody stole all the gold of its hoard. Each group will think they're being railroaded and most likely will start trying more extreme methods to get rid of the annoying "NPCs" that cause them trouble, and soon you'll get a campaign that writes itself as both groups continue to create scenarios and quests for you with their actions. And at the end, you can simply show everyone what happened behind the scenes, not only getting the biggest plot twist ever, but you also introduce two groups of players who will most likely get to know each other and become regulars on your future campaigns. All just as planned.

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

I've done this before, it's super hard logistically and not as fun as you'd think tbh. The payoff was great when the wall came down, but I'm not sure it was worth the trouble. If I ever try it again, I feel like a pbp format will work better

[@andrewdsadfsdafvxcvfsafznw2]

@@Forever-GM-Dusty Pbp format? Wdym?

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

@@andrewdsadfsdafvxcvfsafznw2 play by post. It's a text-based format where you post your actions/words whenever you have time and then people respond as they have time as well

[@andrewdsadfsdafvxcvfsafznw2]

@@Forever-GM-Dusty Ooh, that'd be interesting, although that's definitely pretty far outside the realm of traditional DnD lol

[@stormtendo]

You are evil and I’m simultaneously amused and terrified

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

I was running Curse of Strahd, and my players were fighting an invisible stalker. One of my players could locate it as a werebat with blindsight, so I slid into his dms and got him in on it. They managed to kill the invisible stalker within 2 rounds through clever use of the environment and being quite powerful. But because they couldn't _see_ it, they didn't know it was dead. So I didn't end initiative and just kept a straight face. From that point on, they suddenly couldn't seem to hit it. In reality all their attacks actually _were_ missing because it were on the ground lying dead. I'd also default on its turn to saying "it fails to hit anyone" on its turn after rolling for effect, but not even bothering to check the result. The kicker is that the werebat player, who was right ahead of it in initiative, would attack a random spot where he "saw" it, before it would "move away" on its turn. It took them another 5-6 rounds to figure out what was going on.

[@CodaBlairLucarioEmperor]

They must've wanted to strangle you for that.

[@knutandersson4606]

That's wonderful. I love that.

[@Forever-GM-Dusty]

@@knutandersson4606 the best part was that the prank lasted longer than the actual combat

[@afasdfasafd314]

-a big empty room with a normal treasure chest inside, the chest is completely normal, but the content inside of it is a mimic -a mimic detector, a uncommon magic item that, when touched, shines red if a mimic is within 30 feet of it, and also is a mimic -if they advnture in a dark place with no source of light because everybody has darkvision then i put a puzlle related to colors, just to annoy them

[@Combes_]

-Ask your players to roll for some random thing (perception, constitucion, ETC.) And when they're done, just say 'ok' and never bring it up again

[@DivingDog0]

I ran a DMV dungeon. Lots of waiting in line, inefficient bureaucracy, and characters straight taken from John Cleese's 'How To Annoy People'. The players naturally wanted to complain. So they were given a sending stone to contact the complaints department. They asked their chief question - "Where do we go to turn in our Adventuring forms?". The answer, "We're sorry to hear you've been having trouble. We aspire to provide the best service to every prospective Adventurer. To file your forms, go to-" The message ended at 25 words. Every subsequent message did the same before any information could be given. =D

[@speenta4879]

You are evil

[@Vuldovyol4912]

You sir, are pure fucking evil. I LOVE IT

[@lucielm]

@@Vuldovyol4912 That makes me think of an Asterix and Obilix scene where they are sent on a trial to get a form of the place that drives you mad! For your viewing pleasure kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKWonIijjsqWpM0

[@stormtendo]

I hate you. I don’t know you, but I know I hate you

[@knutandersson4606]

I once made a trap-puzzle meant specifically to punish people with darkvision. A color coded puzzle, with a fake non-color coded solution which would put the party into a disproportionately difficult fight.

[@Victorian_Ghosty]

Unrelated to the video but, the discord server has really helped me get into dnd for the first time everyone there is so nice and fun. If your a new player or want to get into dnd the server is amazing for that! I love the people in the server. I’ve had such a good time.

[@MrRipper]

We appreciate the love, and look forward to seeing more people come join!

[@redforest9269]

What exactly do people do on the server?

[@Scorpious187]

@@redforest9269 Mostly talk about D&D, share character art of their characters, and share DM tips and homebrew ideas. :)

[@iododendron3416]

Give your players a moontouched sword (lights up at night) but tell them it functions like Sting or Glamdring from LotR and only lights up when Orcs (or other enemies) are around.

[@nyxx5357]

That's so mean.. give it to the cleric for "self defense".

[@SolaceHuntsman]

After reading this once I was like “so a weapon of warning?” But after reading it another two times I get what you meant, and see how evil this is. *claps*

[@lolozo214]

I heard a similar idea somewhere of giving a sword like Sting to a bunch of orcs so that as far as they know it always glows

[@Kushrada]

Most evil thing I did was have a cultist in a small room muttering over a table, contents of which were obscured, the paladin slit the throat while the telling the mage to set them on fire(mage being my DM NPC) the player then said they pushed the burning body over what ever they were focused on on the table. It was a baby the cultist was changing the dipper of, the paladin accidently set a baby on fire, killing them, and then LIED to the rest of the party about it. Hell my DM NPC even had his back(DM NPC mage was Lawful evil and thought the whole affair was hilarious). Our party never het the Paladin player live it down.

[@DragonsDungeon]

Was once strapped in animated armour that was trying to suffocate me. Another player said it was like FNAF and it was at that moment the dm decided to lean into it and added spikes that would impale me as I struggled (making a spring lock suit). Meanwhile, in the campaign I run, I was giving everyone dream sequences as they had their first level up, all relating to their gods or powerful beings they had a connection to. But one player, a Tiefling Ranger, was literal a normal merchant travelling with this champion (to be) figures. So in the moment I gave them a dream about going to Hell and meeting a devilish ancestor. Suddenly that one time event has began part of their character arc and they have been pulled to hell many times by this Archdevil and is terrified every time I say their name while they are resting. Essentially a one time in the moment joke nightmare is now a big part of the campaign.

[@ralphbutcher7294]

Near the end of a session a player who had been a bit of a rules lawyer was “accidentally” given a poisoned cup of mead by a travelling salesman, he was warned before drinking and tossed the cup at which point he was admonished for not listening, it wasn’t a cup of poisoned mead but a poisoned cup of mead it’s the cup not the mead that’s poisoned

[@PlayfulOtter]

I made a Gnoll npc named Beyonce. I thought it was just a really dumb joke that the party would groan about and then leave the game never to return. Instead they fell in love with her and one of the players has been trying to get romantically involved with her. I've had to come up with a whole backstory for Beyonce Gnolls.

[@petervoros262]

My sister had this idea for a trap a while ago: set up a wire similar to a tripwire, but make it kinda obvious. When people are searching for traps, it's the first thing they notice, and since they found "the trap," they probably won't bother double-checking, so they carefully step over the wire... And right onto a trapdoor that has a spiked bottom. A pity she doesn't play TTRPGs, but she does write her own comic series, so I might have spoiled a future book right now.

[@erikschaal4124]

I'm pretty sure I've seen a plot line like this in an episode of Naruto. So I'm not sure it's that out there. The evilest traps that I can think usually target more than just the one who triggered it. Or if it causes the dungeon entrance to cave in. My idea of a multi layer trap would be one where a snare propels it's victim 30 ft in the air. This arms a secondary pendulum trap, where the snared victim becomes the pendulum.

[@primalzerg6863]

What's the comics she writes?

[@GregBarsini]

Nice Warframe reference with Clem, I wonder how many people will get it :D

[@razgriz_remnants3970]

i IMMEDIATELY understood it lol

[@link-orknightkeeper3015]

@@razgriz_remnants3970 Same here ^^

[@Progamer-po5pr]

I was looking for this comment

[@Tribozom]

Insulting for me.

[@zockertwins]

GRAKATA!

[@necroticsynthesis4958]

Running a homebrew Theatre of the Mind, to help with tracking individual humanoid enemies I give them incredibly silly names and appearances. Stuff like Spoom Heater, the Drow wearing a propellor hat, aviators, a denim vest and cargo shorts. Mildly memorable, but easier to remember in the heat of things - it also leads to some very funny banter and insults from the party. My campaign is a thin veneer of seriousness, under which lays a twisted latticework of jokes, puns, and in-jokes.

[@simongomez1275]

I'm running a campaign in an Homebrew world with a medieval fantasy/pirate/ cthulhu background. 3 Players are present, 2 friends of mine( half orc barbarian, tieflin druid) and my girlfriend (tabaxi rogue). Important detail, in eatch games she ALWAYS find a way to take a npc or monster as a cute pet. When asked they all wanted a mystery, horror type of game. I Warned them once, be careful, i can be mean, they agreed. Anyways, they were in a pirate lord cave, freeing slave and stealing his treasure. They liberated the slaves ( and a few spies 1st mistake) and found a strange artefact : An huge dragon egg with crystal on it. And a "baby dragon" made of the same crystal. OF COURSE My girlfriend fell in love with the dragon and took it as a pet ( 2nd mistake) The half orc found an axe with runes and used it without checking it( 3rd mistake axe of berserker). Later on, after a " chase" a telephatic discussion with a goolock they escaped with the loot. Hint, that was a trap, made by the bbeg. They are now traveling with the "baby dragon" even making drawing of him IRL. My girlfriend character wake up every night, seeing nightmares and visions, but keep her " pet" with her always. EVEN when the crystal on the egg was revealed to be an aberation corrupting the egg. Remember, i've said SAME crystal as the dragon... It's been 6 cession... The "baby dragon" is still there, making my "pet loving" girlfriend character slowly falling into madness.... They started to notice and she is starting to doubt her favorite friend, even asking me IRL TLDR : Never say yes when a DM ask you if he can be mean.

[@lexsamreeth8724]

My party was nearly TPKed by a small horde of zombies when they were level 1. Later on, they were trying to make contact with a cult devoted to the god of fear to learn the nature of the enormous "moon of writhing flesh" that was pursuing them, and had actually killed them before the campaign started. They were making their way through a darkened corridor, when they heard it. Zombie moans. Our wyrdblood (homebrew class) was so terrified he completely froze, while another party member noticed a sign written in glowing ink over the door lying ahead. "To fear is to exist. To understand fear is to live. To overcome fear is to grow." Turns out that there were zombies - but they were shackled to the walls in such a way that they'd only be dangerous if you put your hand in their mouth. It was still worth the momentary look of panic on their faces, and even more hilarious when the wyrdblood STILL refused to move and had to be carried to the door by our paladin.

[@bodaciouschad]

"Only to find out it was the *left nut* of Vecna." Was that before, or after they ripped out one of their own eyes and jammed the artifact into their eye socket?

[@Tribozom]

More like a AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH on the nut.

[@lycanAbyss]

11:30 loving the warframe reference here

[@NickNak1111]

Your uplifting words at the end always makes my day! I need more people with your energy in my life 😁

[@kiritotheabridgedgod4178]

11:31 I see that DM is a fan of warframe "Clem, Clem Grakata"

[@ryanmaynard618]

Clem is just ripped straight from an NPC/companion in warframe

[@bodaciouschad]

"There are no evil people, only heros you choose not to understand." -Des Nugh Sa.

[@sidecharacter7165]

Got a fun villain interaction when the party loses to someone who would normally just kill them in a TPK: Set 3 aside in a room and cripple all but 2 of the 3 in some way.(Break the sword-arm of a fighter or cut out the tongue of a spell caster) The 2 uninsured are bound to the ceiling and ground d with chains so they can’t move. The other one in the room has their legs broken as well and is tied to a chair. The others are all gagged and put in a spot where they can hear(or see if you are truly sadistic) The one with broken legs is told they have a great opportunity that the BBEG only gives to special guests. He will tell Mr.Legsbroken that he was feeling generous and that the three of them all had the opportunity to go home. “The opportunity, of course, can only apply to two of you. Now(Slav squats on Mr Legsbroken) which of these two do you want to die?” If the player refuse to pick quickly or at all he will say “Well I’ll just kill both if you don’t say anything.” Still refusing gives (Grabshair and forces to look at the others tied up)”I’ll phrase it another way. Which do you want to save?” The villain will kill both if they refuse further and break every limb on Mr. Legsbroken as “I find your lack of comradely disgusting.” If he picks he will walk up to one and put and a light hand on the back of their throat and pat it gently asking “Are you sure?” Whoever they pick the BBEG kills the other one and tells the one that Mr Legsbroken decided to kill that “Guess they didn’t love/like you all that much, huh.” He refuses to further elaborate and leaves them tied up and alone to resolve things. - Taken from something similar in “A Song of Ice & Fire”

[@funnyblog100]

Including a useless magical item known as the Jester's skull. The skull never stops talking and spouts terrible puns constantly.

[@nyxx5357]

* yoinks the annoying skull's lower jaw * Only _I_ get to tell terrible puns around here.

[@trickygamer555]

Seems very useful to me

[@thesetwofloofs5397]

Do you want to have a bad time?

[@LordDukane]

I had a couple of treasure chest mimics to get my party good and nervous about 'em. They started poking chests with sticks and reach weapons. The last chest didn't react. They were relieved, but called me a series of interesting names when they found out that they'd just pocketed around 300 gold piece mimics... Most random swarm I've ever run... but I LOVED the player reaction when their pouches exploded with metallic clinking.

[@notjohnbruno1522]

One of my favorite DMs I’ve played with would, no matter the attack roll and no matter our armor class, always ask if the attack hit. Which means that the wizard with 11 AC would constantly be asked “does a 27 hit?” and the wizard would seethe while replying “yes.” Eventually we started doing the same to him, asking if our 27 attack roll would hit the goblin we were fighting and it was so satisying seeing him get just as pissed off. That was a fun campaign.

[@sterlinggecko3269]

that Starfinder ghost ship one is pretty close to a Wildstar solo dungeon, where the former crew of a ship went crazy and killed each other, and it turns out to be a gas leak. I've been keeping that in my back pocket to use the next time I run a Starfinder game. the group will be rolling against each other and not know know it. none of them have played Wildstar, so they'll never figure it out early.

[@sterlinggecko3269]

this video came back around to me, and I did indeed run that scenario as a Halloween one shot. there was body horror, with soldiers trying to dig worms out of their arms and other soldiers' necks, wit knives, demons coming out of the walls. and, I made it a contest; they got points for doing horror movie cliches, and the one with the most points at the end got a permanent boon on their main campaign character. one character narrowly avoided tossing a fireball at a creature a little ways in front of them, but was actually a hallucination and the wall was 10 feet in front of them. they would have immediately killed most of the party, and ended the session early. so I fudged a little, and we got through my entire one-shot plan.

[@Lee-yl4ul]

That Bob Ross one reminded me of a couple NPCs for my Deadlands game (a wild west setting with horror/steampunk elements) Rob Barley, a random bounty target wanted for shooting a sheriff and a deputy. And Will E. aka "the coyote", who is a bounty hunter that uses a variety of steampunk gizmos that keep catastrophically malfunctioning, because all the devices are infested with gremlins.

[@deckerjake438]

I loved this video. I’ve only played twice (2 1-shots) and look forward to our DM messing with us like this. I love a good challenge.

[@him4627]

I once gave my friend rogue a bestiary to give them advantage on animal handling skill checks, they really wanted to tame beasts, I named the book magical creatures and where to find them.

[@admiraltonydawning3847]

Evilness not found.

[@Sky_C]

I picked this up from a DM i used to play under. Whenever any of my players roll stealth, no matter how good or bad the roll is, I always reply with one sentence. "You believe you're hidden." It's such a good way of preventing metagaming, as well as giving me a chuckle when they roll a 22 and are still on edge

[@Aeonsteel]

Clem is definitely a Warframe reference!

[@golett0331]

Scrolled to far to find this

[@austinwelch1132]

That last one was particularly funny to me, because "Clem" is obviously a reference to an NPC in the game Warframe named Clem, who is grineer clone that came out a little on the different side. He only says "clem" and "grakata" which are his name and favorite weapon. I've got about 6000 hours in Warframe, so I was a little surprised to see that someone else had made a reference to it in a totally unrelated place.

[@fabiansuckfull9446]

My plan is to have the group babysit of a pre-teen hag. It'll start off harmless with making sure the homework is done, cooking pancakes etc. Then we'll get to teatime with Mr.Fluffington the Kodiak bear. After they gulped down the absolutely undrinkable mushroom tea, it'll be makeover time. Somewhere in the middle of the barbarian getting his nails painted by the little one, the hallucinogenic effects of the mushroom tea will kick in. Beyond that I'll probably have some fun by giving this 9 year old the spellbook equivalent of a LvL 15 wizard. Oh and the nail polish for the barbarian is permanent. Have fun intimidating those orcs with turquoise fingernails.

[@Karagianis]

Include a locked chest in the lair of a green dragon, hidden deep in the lair next to the dragon's sleeping chamber. If the party manage to get to it, and crack the lock, they open it up the chest cracks open slowly, then springs open revealing the contents. A live halfling wearing a gasmask loudly playing Korobieniki on an accordion! Blowing any hope of stealth if the party snuck their way in there, or trolling them if they fought the dragon to get there. There is nothing else in the chest.

[@scribblerstudios9895]

That's Half-toe Harry. The dragon pays him a small stipend to act as a security system for overly sticky fingered do gooders

[@DM-Buggy]

Oh my God I have a perfect one for this! I had one of my players put under a spell for hunting and killing a Druids heard of deer so that night when he went to bed he be trapped in a Dreamscape where he was journeying alone for weeks in an empty field that seemed to to go on for eternity and when he finally died of hunger he woke up in the middle of the night to see the Druid monitoring his camp. The player now suffers from agoraphobia

[@backonlazer791]

The player or the character?

[@DM-Buggy]

@@backonlazer791 the character

[@crowsenpai5625]

A better version of the “random perception checks” is instead of asking anyone to do anything, just as the party are joking around (loudly) roll d20s. They aren’t for anything, just make random rolls. If the players ask about it just vaguely say something like “don’t worry about it yet.” And keep rolling.

[@marvinpowell5503]

Starfinder: I started my players with a random NPC named 'Tatchia' to round out their party. Six months in and she is running as a version of a rogue, but they still never bothered to probe her background till one session a dashing character shows up randomly to take her for a spy mission. His name? Bane John's. Her? She's Tatchia Body. I still chuckle at how long I stretched out that one.

[@katherinepurvin7802]

Out of curiosity, was that a callback to 'The All-Guardsman Party'?

[@erikschaal4124]

The one joke character that will most certainly annoy the party would be "The Dungeon Merchant." Who runs the totally ethical business of scavenging supplies and magic items off of dead adventurers only to sell them back to new and naive adventurers. The players may or may not find equipment belonging to a fallen party member among his inventory.

[@nyxx5357]

So, Patches from the Souls games? Sounds horrible. And fun. Horribly fun.

[@Indi_Skye]

A few years ago, I was running a campaign where, towards the end of the second act, the PC's were exploring a crumbling tower in search of the enemy they were pursuing (she wasn't actually there at the time, but left behind signs of her presence). The tower was four floors, and, being thousands of years old, was falling apart. Each floor was drawn as they went and was never erased since there was a lot of switching floors as they explored. The party, as they explore, find a section of the floor on the second level that has fallen away, leaving a roughly ten-foot gap they need to cross. They spend around thirty minutes out of game trying to find a way across the gap, as they don't want to fall down and none of them have Fly. Eventually, they find a table, break off the legs, and use it to build a bridge. They nervously try to cross and, once they're all past, I point to the same location on the floor below and remind them of the pile of rubble they found earlier that led up to where they were now, which was only about a two-foot drop from the floor they were on.

[@epsilon7283]

Making the bad guy literally just one of my characters from one of my other campaigns. Sounds cringy, but hear me out, he was the warlock of a eldrich deity, the deity in question was of chaos and of freedom, so the rules binding the warlock were pretty low, so he’d always end up as npc’s in other campaigns. The logical endpoint was the the second villain who just wanted the fame and glory of killing the big bad, and they had to do 1v1 duels with the warlock in honorary battle to pass… the warlock’s first move was eldrich blast, I think you can guess how the rest of the duels went until the last one

[@woolseymammoth6459]

As a DM I gave our barbarian a pair of “Boots of the Giant”. He immediately put them on assuming it would boost his strength to that of a giant. Instead the boots were a cursed item that automatically attuned to him and could not be removed, while lowering his dex to that of a hill giant (which is a negative modifier). Instead of asking the wizard to cast remove curse and break the attunement, he had another party member cut off his legs and cast regenerate to grow new feet.

[@fierybookworm]

"Weird Owl Yankovich," the Aarakocra Minstrel who sings the best songs in the realm: "Can you feel the Dove tonight," "I've got a Preening," and my personal favorite, "Sqwaking On."

[@olahmundo]

my homebrew scenario has a skeleton merchant named Skully. He is the only character in my world that is fully aware that he's fictional, sometimes addressing the players themselves rather than the character, and if he fights, he gets a bunch of dice and his character sheet. But that's not the best part. He sells my players what is essentially lootboxes; crates with magical items, but they'll only see what they bought after the purchase. Once they open the crate, they roll a d20 and I check a list of items I made, with ideas from the internet and (mostly) personal creations. Some of the items are good, like the Anti-Fall Damage ring (that basically lets you fall from any height), but some are just goofy. My personal favorites were the magical blue sword (a regular sword that someone used magic to paint it blue), an elm that encourages the player in whatever they want to do, a teleportation ring that goes anywhere you want (but only the ring goes, not you), and a magical scroll that cures the blindness of anyone who reads it.

[@WarChallenger]

I intend to run a campaign based in our real world in 2234. Mars and Venus were both colonized, leaving Earth a bit more overgrown than normal because suburban life was a pain in the neck for most people. That being said, the cities are high concentrated technology. One of the great feats of engineering is the "Artif-Range," an artificer gun that totally isn't named in reference of the French World War 1 song, "Verdun on ne Passe Pas." There is a smaller version of it, (the Arcana-Range), that has some unintended bugs, which will account for wild magic in the future. However, I specifically made my own wild magic chart called "wild tech," which has all sorts of bizarre, almost meta-breaking effects. For example, if the player rolls unluckily enough, here's what happens: "A game of minesweeper suddenly appears on the gun’s screen. In order to unlock it again, the player must actively stream themself completing an easy round of Google minesweeper. The DM is required to provide an adequate explanation of the game if needed. If they lose the game, the gun stays locked for 1d6 turns in the next combat encounter." This literally puts the entire game on hold just so we can watch a confused mage try to solve a logic puzzle, while the whole rest of the party most likely yells at them where to click. As someone who likes chemistry and physics, too, I may or may not have put in an effect where the laws of physics will probably crap themselves. "Any and all oxygen present in the current or next summoned non-living object is changed into one randomized element on the periodic table." Doesn't seem so bad, until you realize how many unstable nuclear isotopes there are on the periodic table. There's a pretty good chance that whatever they summon will start to fizzle out of existence while making any nearby Geiger counters go nuts. I've also included a special encounter on the table in reference to possibly my favorite story from this channel. A lobster the size of a Boeing 747.

[@nicholascorcoran4734]

Clem... nice warframe reference 👌

[@jhfdhgvnbjm75]

I ran a homebrew DnD5e short where the players were sent to a town to track down a monster, in the bar at night a half orc ran in saying the lumber camp outside town had been attacked and they'd (in an outrageously thick accent) 'Taken me kid, Gotha!' he was inconsolable. Needless to say, the party went out to rescue the helpless child, after tracking through the woods they found some goblin bandits who had been masquerading as a monster and killed / captured them, but there was no sign of a child, just some crates, barrels of food and a goat tethered in the corner of the camp. They tried to get the goblin they'd captured to talk and tell them where the child was, but he didn't know what they were talking about, one of them eventually beheaded him when he said something unfortunate. Anyway, they get back to the lumber camp with the crates (and the goat) and the half orc exclaimed in joy 'You found me kid! You got me gotha!' and ran to hug the goat...all the players understood what had happened except one, the one who had beheaded the goblin had to have it explained in simple terms...he immediately swore at the deviousness of the trick XD

[@vee1267]

Health Potion Mimics would make SO MUCH SENSE in-universe. Enough people know about the treasure chest disguise that it’s no longer very effective. But a health potion? When somebody needs one, they’re liable to let their guard down the second they see it. And since that person is already injured, weakened prey… the mimics disguised as potions become more successful hunters. It’s evolution in action!

[@Jessie_Helms]

So there’s a polar werebear who’s 1 PC’s uncle and rescued another PC as a child. At least 6 feet, probably pushing 8 in werebear form. This NPC, Slam, had just captured the NPC who’d betrayed and TPK’d the party (who were resurrected, following the module as-written). Then he spoke for the first time. Cue me doing the highest pitched voice I can muster, “Greetings Flick [the NPC’s nephew].” The whole table burst out laughing. They said a few more words, then mostly went silent as the party had a lot to discuss. About 45 minutes later IRL they asked Slam for his opinion, and again I used the highest pitched voice I could do. I got _1 syllable_ out before they all died again, since they’d forgotten the voice I’d used and were expecting some knockoff Christian bale Batman voice. I’ve intentionally never used that NPC again so my voice doesn’t die

[@camarofan2008]

Albino red dragon that has been terrorizing a local village.

[@sapphirII]

Many years ago, I had the idea that if I'd GM in Pathfinder, I wanted to make a quest were they had to slay lycanthropes. First, they'd meet a party of overleveled rougarous(wolf headed humanoids) only to be badly beaten(if they attacked). Then they'd be pointed where the lycanthropes actually were, and they'd find... wereskunks.

[@Eliezar18]

Running Dungeon of the Mad Mage. Added a DMPC named Tryx, a bonded pseudodragon familiar (and therefore can gain class levels, unlike a summoned familiar). He is bonded to the Mad Mage, himself, except that this is actually the true Halaster Blackcloak, exiled from his own Dungeon complex by a clone of himself containing a shard of his soul, created by magical mishap. Tryx is at the dungeon looking to groom a party to a strength that can beat the clone, and let him retake his dungeon. Tryx is basically a massive long con (though the party will, of course be rewarded for their help), and his name was a warning from day one that none of them have any clue about.

[@fuzzyhughes3622]

Mine is building a large, long campaign where amazing items and abilities are given often. The items are strong enough to make fighting easier and unique enough so the party will feel more attached to them, even above other items and weapons. Final few fights, the items are withdrawn, being mere vessels for Gods and demigods, leaving the party in a bad spot if they began to rely to heavily on them. It is gonna happen to my current character in a campaign (a wizard) but a mortal enemy of theirs is a mageslayer so i was already gonna multiclass into blood hunter so i can fight even under antimagic and loss of spells. NEVER rely on one thing. Have backups and backups for even those ones. ESPECIALLY if you're a squishy wizard who depends way to much on having a book for your spells (repeated castings of encode thoughts MIGHT save more spells but It has a limit on content amount and an 8 hr time)

[@Pausenmacher]

The Warframe Reference with "Clam" is pure gold.

[@ktriplenine]

Not sure who’s going to see this, but the story of Jerrel at 2:10 was covered in a past video from MrRipper in more detail, “What move will forever live in infamy part 3” it’s a really funny story.

[@doodle_guard]

Ok, so little bit of context, we were playing Steven universe themed campaign, and our bbeg at the time was hessonite. So, we're going back to our spaceship, ready to get the hell out of there, and finish the session, then DM says "oh, wait a minute, i need a right music for this moment" and then we hear Hessonite's theme, we're panicking, then he says "oops, sorry, wrong one" and then turns on the theme of LAPIS GODDAMNIT LAZULI! The one we helped to find love, couple of hours ago! So, yeah, that was the most evil thing our dm did to us

[@RobCrowley85]

Health potion mimic is the most dickishly wonderful concept ever!

[@helluvahazbin8923]

I subscribed mostly for the messages at the end... I'm not really inro D&D but my partners (2 boyfriends and a girlfriend) are so I'm trying to learn about it... anywho, back on topic thank you for the touching messages at the end... most of them are really helpful so... thanks 😊

[@theultrasceptile]

With the end of the vid, I’ve never heard truer words

[@rosecarlene7275]

So i did this just off the top of my head one session when my players asked “rose is there a shop near?” and i said “yeah, there’s a shitty tourist trap shop called the mystery pier” and plopped the Mystery Shack from Gravity Falls in dnd. The owner of this is Gr’unkle St’an a gnome who looks like Stan Pines. There’s a fake monster called Silvery the Silvercreek Monster which is an alligator or crocodile (whichever is smaller) sized loch ness monster.

[@JacobL228]

11:26 Clem has enough on his plate working for Darvo and occasionally helping out the Tenno without you stealing his identity.

[@fireblast133]

DM got a pc caught stealing from a magic shop in a very funny way. See, the owner trained mimics. He then kept everything locked up in the back, and what was on display was actually all mimics. They were trained to only attack the person touching them if they attempted to leave with them. So when someone wanted to legitimately buy something, he'd make an excuse like 'oh right this sword comes with a scabbard, hang on while I got fetch it' to take the mimic in the back and fetch the real item. The PC had tried to wear a pair of gauntlets out. They latched down on his arms and forced him to hold onto the doorway, adhering him in place doing so.

[@boredusername4804]

a goblet with ''make a constitution saving throw " ingrained into it

[@keith3278]

Was running a modern era D&D campaign, described to the players as seeing a hobo pushing 2 crats together down an alleyway like they were a table trolley. In reality the hobo was a 5-Star military general with levels in Warlock using Disguise Self & Minor Illusion to transport his unconscious brother in arms on a medical gurney as well as their belt fed light machine guns.

[@AoAD]

Had a hall of obviously painful death with a chest at the end of it. It literally had a sign that said, "Hall of Painful death." It was a cruel ploy, but my players are greedy af. The hall had so many death traps and required a series of checks to avoid them. Glyphs of Warding, panels that bounced players back into the middle of the hall where the death traps were, abjurative enchantments to prevent teleportation, the works. And when they got to the chest, and they unlocked it, there was a note inside with a single copper that says, "Copper for your thoughts." The letter than goes on to berate the people who ignored the obvious signs and said, "The best treasure I can give you is the wisdom to realize that the true riches are the friends we made along the way. Also, while you were reading this, the traps reset."

[@БурутинаАня]

I was the DM. The party was searching for the wizard who specialised in illusions, trying to navigate his lair. They came across a room and I had them all roll wisdom saves as the door behind them closed. Everyone failed, and I asked for their character sheets (I sometimes did that to give inspiration, for example) after having them write down their wisdom, intelligence and charisma stats. Then, after receiving all their sheets, I gave up them back at random, making sure nobody got their own sheet sheet. The players were confused, but as I explained that suddenly they found themselves in each other's bodies, they roared with laughter. They were absolutely overjoyed, the newly-made spellcasters attempted to cast spells (for some reason they were unable to access them), the newly-made barbarian tried to push the door away (he did rage, but his strength wasn't enough), everyone just had a blast while one person attempted to solve the sudoku puzzle to open the door. When the door opened, the truth was revealed. Nobody actually exchanged bodies. It was an illusion so powerful that it affected all their sences, even the cleric's connection to her God. That room I'm proudest of.

[@taith2]

That teleportation ring could be awesome tool for character that charges You see enemy charging at you but you defended, to be charged from behind right away unexpectedly IMO that would make devastating damage

[@postapocalypticnewsradio]

PANR has tuned in.

[@KertaDrake]

Just roll enough dice for an entire 40k Ork army when rolling a perception check for your players in D&D.

[@Lionheart-tu4zs]

Lol clem made me imagine a kobold in grineer armour 🤣

[@ala5530]

My personal favourites are the Infinite Konami Dungeon (set up one room with no doors, six teleport beacons- two of them being gemstones, four being aligned with a large compass- and a large water feature. Every time they use a beacon, they get teleported to an identical room. If you feel like giving a hint, mutter about them entering Room A, Room K, or whatever. Stock the room with monsters or not. If they figure out that by using the beacons in the order North, North, South, South, West, East, West, East, Beryl, Amber the water feature turns into a portal out of the dungeon without groans and throwing dice at you... they've probably read this comment), the Absolutely Immovable Rod (when activated, remains EXACTLY in place. Shame the planet is revolving about its axis, orbiting a star, which itself is orbiting the centre of the galaxy, etc.), and one which I heard about but have never had a chance to use: the White/Wight Dragon Variations (Set a load of rumours about a white dragon terrorising the area, or the great hoard of treasure it's amassed. Wait for the players to gear up with spells/gear for Protection from Cold. When they track it down, reveal it to be long dead- either as an undead bone dragon, so they're prepped for completely the wrong type of damage, or if you fancy feeling anticlimactic, just a long dead corpse, and the rumours and sightings they've been following are of the white of its bones).

[@Yourlibrarian]

I think “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream.” Would be an intense campaign if you haven’t seen anything on it.

[@jessegd6306]

My idea: Brown Pants Of Holding. Basically a bag of holding in the form of brown trousers. The pockets are smaller than a bag's opening, naturally, but they still work as a bag of holding. The catch? The pockets are only active while the pants are worn, and the pants can NOT be removed when worn unless SEVERAL days have gone by. The evil? The wearer doesn't feel the need to relieve themselves to use a toilet, and in fact CAN'T relieve themselves, which means when time's up they've suddenly gotta GO real, real bad. They were Holding it all in. Brown Pants indeed.

[@fivestringslinger]

I'm playing in a 5E in person campaign with a party of 4. The DM, his wife and myself are all part of the fur community (relax: some of us are actually normal and not degenerate freaks) and the other two just don't care. So DM green lit my request to re-skin my character's race. The campaign started in a desert area, so I created a six foot tall, bipedal, talking coyote. With the flaw that he takes great offense at being called a "dog". Crossbow expert fighter. I decided I wanted to try a caster for the first time around level 7, so after talking with DM I decided to multiclass into Great Old One Warlock. DM worked with me on the narrative for this. My character was a treasure hunter in the wastes before the campaign. In keeping with the desert theme, DM suggested we flavor my patron as something desert/ancient Egyptian themed where my character had taken an artifact from their temple and they'd been keeping an eye on me ever since and decided I seemed useful. Sounded fun, so I waited till the next session where the reveal would be made to the rest of the party. I went in not knowing what my new patron would actually be. What did the DM choose for my badass sniper coyote? Anubis? Horus? No. Baast. A cat-headed goddess who has seen her influence on the world diminish and decided that my character would become her "little attack dog" and do her bidding in the mortal world in exchange for powers to help stop the imminent threat to the world... or suffer eternal torment for looting her temple. It's become a source of amusement and running jokes ever since.

[@mayajohnson9731]

BBEG that steals pc magic items and uses up all the charges, equips what they want, then throws their gear away in really inconvenient places (hurling things overboard on a ship so it sinks, chucking things over cliffs, dropping down mine shafts, letting the wind carry away scrolls and spellbook pages, etc.). Nothing makes players angrier than their stuff getting destroyed or lost.

[@TheBioFear]

I am running a campaign that's premise is mimics, so I will absolutely be using the "Health Potion Mimics"

[@alexandercross9081]

As a furious DM I feel the need to state **Furious Scribling Noises**

[@INgenReborn]

It was the Star Wars setting so losing a hand was quite the event for one of the characters. Luckily for him the party found a surgeon really fast so the hand could be reattached without bigger inconvenience. A Quarren with a reddish tint to his skin and pincers instead of hands. Good ol' Dr. Grebd Ioz offered himself to fix our friend for free. Half surgery I asked the party to write the name of the surgeon and to read it backwards, when they realized it was too late, surgery had ended and our patient had both hands attached again... to the same arm... backwards...

[@PizzaMineKing]

My idea: have the quest giver go "well, I figured out a cheaper way. Goons, kill them" when it comes to paying...

[@williamsrdan]

Klem? Sounds like Cookie in our games that only ever said "Food." Many years before Groot.

[@TheKrazyKid911]

Dang. Warframe reference. CLEM

[@DraganGrazic]

I have a question about half-elves, half-orcs, and half-giants: What exactly is the other half?

[@lonewolf65eight]

Normally human. In the case of half orcs it's normally not with consent

[@DraganGrazic]

@@lonewolf65eight Thank you, for the swift answer. I just combined a Loxodon with a Minotaur. Would that be possible lorewise?

[@Greypelt7]

@@DraganGrazic If your the GM, don't worry about it as it can always be a one off exception with unknown special circumstances.

[@DraganGrazic]

@@Greypelt7 so that would be a "Not officially, but you could work something out."

[@lordhellstrande7188]

My favorite thing is rolling behind my DM screen for nothing 90% of the time (sometimes for weather) but simply nodding or saying something like "Hmm...interesting..." And continuing

[@Kiyoko_Otomo]

11:26 Grakata

[@horeyshio_garcia]

Thats what a thought too

[@MortusVanDerHell]

I love the idea with the Asmodeus worshipping cats. ^^

[@immortalmonk2891]

I have an *ahem* merchant NPC name Li, who is the specialist smuggler who has made an appearance in every campaign of mine. He is a party favorite, to the point of the party getting involved in wars just to keep Li alive.

[@lycanAbyss]

OK so this one's a little complicated so I have a dungeon designed that is 100% pure evil and I will probably never use. So the first floor is a standard maze, 1 way in, 3 ways to move on to the next floor, the second floor is more maze which has no way onto the 3rd and final floor unless you chose the correct stairs. 3rd floor is boss room. Oh and just in case that didn't seem evil enough for you the whole dungeon is inhabited by mischievous pixie type creatures that use illusion magic to protect their queen (the boss on the final floor of the maze.) Making people believe there are dead ends whenever they are getting close to progressing, making dead ends look like they aren't dead ends in the hopes of making people run head first into invisible walls and tons of similar "pranks."

[@MsCamo2]

One of my players was a complete power gamer, build his players to be undefeatable, and he often went looking for loot before the fight ended, and he had the ritual caster feat, which he used, with detect magic, only to determine which object was stronger, so he got the best stuff. One time I decided to him a lesson and when he used detect magic to see into the loot he spotted a greatsword (the weapon he weilded) almost blinding him with green light (he didn't have identify so he couldn't possibly know what it did, but he grabbed it instantly) I nonetheless told him it was a masterfully crafted +3 sword which did 2d20 slashing damage (magical) and that it had some other effects he couldn't know. Next town over he sold his previous sword and claim he would only ever used the new one. You see, I'm of the opinion cursed items shouldn't be explained as such, they shouldn't be revealed and kept a secret to the character and the player. The only magic with this blunted sword has a heavy doze of illusions that made it appear much more powerful than it was. In reality it was a -2 sword that did 1d4 bludgeoning damage, also, almost everyone with a slight magic sensitivity would sense the 'power' of the sword and more often than not would attack the group in order to get it. After about twenty sessions they finally were able to learn about the sword, and by 'they' I mean him. As the other players, while helpful with each other wouldn't even lend money to his character, as he was really selfish himself. He spend a lot of gold on a town wizard casting identify, which didn't work because 'the item was too powerful', then legend lore which told him 'it would only work at the nineth level' so he quested and quested in order to learn the awesome powers of his blade, getting attacked by a lot of people in the meantime, he finally found a wizard that charged him a lot of money for a legend lore at the nineth level and he found the truth. He was so fucking mad. I loved it.

[@jdizzlegaming1178]

I’m running a quest for my birthday coming up and I decided that it would be funny that in the final stage of a fight, that an orchestra of gnome bards comes to the parties aid by playing Megalovania for them to give them inspiration

[@MisterDiceGuy]

Omg I broke down laughing at Health Potion Mimics.

[@jacoborourke454]

I found a stat block for a Pokémon Fusion of Pidgeotto and Lickitung that was essentially a flying Banderhobb. I joked that I would work it into my Wildemount campaign.

[@jakeand9020]

I have players make random checks all the time for no reason. If you call for a specific check only when it's relevant they know something is going on. Further, I keep a chart of all their modifiers so they never know what the check is for until something results from it. So I don't call for "checks" I just call for a die roll. Usually I'll also use it as an impromptu random encounter check as I'll usually have something happen on a nat 1 or 20.

[@christopherclubb9167]

I recently ran a session where intellect devourers started a city riot. The players enter a scene where two men are bludgeoning a young woman. Naturally, they rushed to the woman's defense, only for one of the men to yell "she's one of those things!" as she slipped away into the chaos. The man's daughter saw the adventurers attack her father, and will forever remember that day. The party is now planning to pay for her therapy.

[@rezeric1]

Sometimes, as a DM, I just roll dice behind the DM screen. Little do they know I play the CR game. Roll a D20 and see if you can match the Challenge Rating DC recommendations on the DM Screen. Its pretty fun and the looks on their faces are priceless.

[@johandori7795]

So uh...that crashed ship one (from starfinder) sounds almost exactly like something from Trials in Tainted Space...WTF?

[@kemikaze4335]

I have a idea to a mini-dungeon inspired by home alone and the villains name is Kevin the kobold. Traps and more traps :D

[@Aquarios1337.]

Please read up on Tucker's Kobolds.

[@kemikaze4335]

@@Aquarios1337. Tuckers kobold? Link?

[@kemikaze4335]

@@Aquarios1337. Ah thats super awesome :D

[@jblask2]

Imagine you're looking around for a giant dragon and just get stabbed in the neck by a kobold.

[@shadowofaion7950]

The real question though, did Clem have Twin Grakatas?

[@aduckwithayoutubechannel]

That “Warforged kidnapping” story is some bullshit. Carrying capacity is [strength score] x 15. The average commoner will have a strength score of 10, allowing them to lift 150 pounds. The average bandit has a strength score of 11, allowing them to lift 155 pounds. A Goliath PC using the standard array will have a strength score of 17, allowing them to lift 255 pounds. The average Warforged weighs 270-300 pounds.

[@btf_flotsam478]

Reminds me of the "friendly neighbourhood Drider-man" story that popped up a while ago...